Looks like the Ellen DeGeneres show gave away a bunch of Microsoft Zunes (The #1 daytime show, Oprah, already did it with Apple’s iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition).
Note the lack of information about the draconian limits to Zune sharing (three times, then self-destruct – regardless of media source, ie. from a store or even a song you made yourself; all shared Zune content gets Microsoft’s 3-time-only-then-go-boom DRM), that the round thing there is a fake click wheel designed to fool people that it works like an iPod (it’s really just a four-way button), or the fact that the Zune Marketplace doesn’t even offer video content.
Note also that nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American housefrau (or overestimating their size). Ellen’s studio full of carbo-loaded soccer moms go absolutely berserk; it’s like a Saturday Night Live skit. We can only pray that those studio bleachers are severely reinforced. Man, there’s a whole lotta shakin’ going on over at Ellen! Seriously, they really ought to call it The Ellen DeGeneres Farm Hour: two normal-sized humans in front of the camera and 300 cows behind it. No wonder our health insurance rates are astro-freakin-nomical.
One word: diet. Here’s another: exercise.
Anyway, after seeing that bizarre reaction to a piece of re-branded Toshiba crap, we hope they had medics on hand for the fainters or at least passed out cigarettes after the orgasmic excitement subsided. We didn’t see any squirting, but something was certainly going on:
So, whaddya think, can Microsoft fool the ignorant masses again (in which case, Steve Jobs would nip the whole thing in the bud PDQ) or will people not be so excited once they find out Zune’s many weaknesses?
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Oops,
“And BTW, I couldn’t care less about your useless momma that obviously turned you into a milquetoast wimp that licks women’s boots. I bet you’re gay.”
Way to go, keyboard Kommando. Looks like using an iPod hasn’t raised your intelligence very much.
Will, I have found that once you are as saturated with intelligence as I am, it becomes increasingly difficult to become even more intelligent. It’s like trying to make a wet sponge wetter. Or like trying to make Will’s hole looser.
Okay, all kidding aside, you seem unable to detect I’m just toying with “holdon” by resorting being deliberately over-the-top.
Because? Well, “holdon” prances onto the scene and presumes to lecture me. One thing I hate as much as ignorance is self-righteous, moralizing, sanctimonious, holier-than-thou, Johnny Goodheart soapboxing. So I cut his nut off and fed it to my pitbull.
Holdon, be a man!
Wow… what a cllip. I knew there was an “APPLAUSE” button in those studios, but they must have a “LOSE YOUR FREAKIN’ MINDS UNTIL YOU WET YOURSELVES” button on the Ellen show.
I think the Earth just moved off it’s axis. I’ve never seen so many fat people jump in unison.
lol, those are gonna be the only people to have zunes in the country!
also, did you see how long it took her to get a picture up on there?
This is some of the funniest stuff I’ve read in a long. You guys are crazy.
Did ellen mention it was ac/dc?
Oops = Wet Sponge.
Say no more.
Can someone say applause signal?
Noone really wants a Zune, nobody even knows what it is except for people that keep up with this tech stuff.
Nice one Microsoft but ur not gonna make a profit by giving away zune’s.
Jon,
M$ isn’t trying to make a profit. They’re creating a “social network.” You know, to be all do-goodie and stuff.
I love that line “It creates a social network.” How the hell do you know? They’re not even available yet.
Zune: the choice of DeGenerates
Lots of adolescent boy posturing on here. Yeah, that’s what I come for.
Oh yeah, & little man “Oops” is just a mouthy boy.
I’ve used, fixed & sold Macs longer than most of you have been alive, so I’m an Apple fan, but you kids are just silly.
The internet is too often a pooling of the lowest denominator… even among Mac users.
geeze
Zune. It Squirts!
For those interested..
Apple has created official MySpace pages for the blue, green and pink nano’s:
http://www.myspace.com/bluenano
http://www.myspace.com/greennano
http://www.myspace.com/pinknano
Add them to your friends list and be sure to download the nano screen savers.. Pretty cool.
another reason why you can’t trust dikes….
WOW!!! You’d think the Zune came with a coupon for free liposuction with so many fatties going crazy.
the skinny “marketing filler” states: “you can put it in landscape to make your pictures and movies bigger.”
Of course they’re going to be “bigger” than say the iPod’s, at least from a resolution standpoint. Both are 320×240, yet the Zune has a larger screen. Which means your pixels are just bigger.
That was *astonishingly* lame. It was full of lies! The Zune doesn’t even support video — it only has animation for the backdrop screen to fool people into thinking it does video. She makes it sound like the Zune does movies like the iPod.
And notice she’d didn’t actually show “squirting” a song to Ellen — that would have taken too long and the audience would have gotten bored and wandered away.
That landscape quote was my favorite: how does merely rotating your Zune 90 degrees make the screen BIGGER???
Ridiculous stuff!
Where’s Ampar?
The whole audience gets ZUNED ewwwww!
This posting is a little over the top, even for a gritty Web site like MacDailyNews. Yikes!
People are dumb. The iPods days are numbered. Lucky I bought an 80giger while I still could.
How much did they have to pay the audience?????
iPhone Jan 07′
The Zune Phone 10 years early.